Deschutes & Ochoco National Forests
Crooked River National Grassland

Project Documents - Met Fuels Reduction Project

USDA Forest Service
Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District, Deschutes National Forest
R 11 E, T 18 S, Sections 22, 26, 27, 33; R 11 E, T 19 S, Sections 4, 5, 8, 9
Deschutes County, Oregon

The Met Project area is located between Bend and Sunriver, Oregon on the Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest.  The Met units lie between the Wildland-urban Interface that was designated by Sunriver and Bend Community Wildfire Protection Plans to the north and south, and between Highway 41 to the west and the Deschutes River to the east.

The area was clear-cut harvested by the Shevlin-Hixon company in the 1920s and the lands subsequently purchased by the federal government for inclusion in the Deschutes National Forest. Because of the earlier clear-cutting, vegetation conditions and attributes have been significantly altered from their historic range with almost a complete absence of large, old trees and open, fire-maintained ponderosa pine stands.

Project Documents

• Met Decision Memo
• Met Preliminary Decision Memo
• Met Map - Units